With the reliance on digital technology as the newest form of 21st century pop culture, students have virtual access to multiple resources that influence their cognition. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to ...

This study articulates a vision for a relational pedagogy in education. In a policy era characterized by an overwhelming emphasis on accountability for teachers and students connected to content area assessment scores, a ...

Parishioners in most local churches experience prayer as a process of asking and receiving from God, followed by an expression of thanksgiving for answered prayer. Other dimensions of prayer, such as prayer for the sake ...

Many religions have been significantly changed by the conversion of an empire to that religion, yet imperial conversion has received little attention within religious studies. Consequently, the goal of this study is to ...

The use of social media is becoming more pervasive in our society. Adolescents are suffering dire consequences as a result of their social media postings and many feel that schools are not adequately preparing youth to ...

With the extensive research on disproportionality of African Americans in special education, the researcher explored implicit bias as a contributing factor. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent Bias ...

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ELIZABETH WILLIAMS DURBIN
INCLUSION, INSTRUCTION, AND EDUCATION OF OTHERS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF SIBLINGS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES AND THEIR TEACHERS
Under the direction of SHERAH BETTS CARR, Ph.D.
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There are nine human herpes viruses ubiquitous in nature and most of our adult population harbors multiple latent species (18). One of these is varicella zoster virus (VZV), an alphaherpesvirus responsible for chicken pox ...

High school is a pivotal time in the development of an adolescent (Anfara & Caskey, 2014; Browne, 2014). Because of the varied experiences that high school students endure, in and outside of school, the development of a ...

This quasi-experiment using a pretest/posttest with control design with randomization investigated the effects of using culturally relevant word problems in fourth grade mathematics. Study participants were African American ...

In the context of large church leadership, the success of a congregation is often associated with the public persona of its senior pastor. The result is a very real temptation on the part of the senior pastor to place a ...

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, current high school seniors left elementary school experiencing less instructional time for social studies compared to other subjects. The dominance of standardized tests led ...

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ZACHRY CARL LAUERSDORF
LIVING IN EXILE: A POSTCOLONIAL READING OF THE JACOB CYCLE
Under the direction of DAVID G. GARBER, Ph.D.
The Jacob Cycle of Genesis is one of the most fascinating series of stories from ...

There are various beliefs concerning different facets about Jesus. One of longest running debates about Jesus is whether or not he was human or divine. The purpose of this thesis is to examine one element that stems from ...

The purpose of the study was to examine how action research informs instructional changes that need to take place in the middle grades mathematics classroom. There is a need for an increase in engagement in middle grades ...

MATTHEW MCLENDON
MORE THAN MONEY: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF CULTURAL CAPITAL VARIABLES ON FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
Under the direction of OLIVIA BOGGS, Ed.D.
Using data from the High School Longitudinal ...

The intersection of biblical texts with popular culture is endlessly fascinating and always changing as culture continues to provide new materials to discuss. It is the objective of this thesis to place two well known ...